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Rex Cinema Fire

According to Daniel L. Bynam in Washington Post 2007.

It is the 2nd deadliest terriost attack to 9/11/

Who did it?

Captain Monir Taheri

- Government said it was Islamic Militants

- Public believed it was Intelligence services of the Nation

SAVAK

- Later closed Islamic Militants caused it

- member of Iran's pre-revolutionary armed forces was arrested, in the town of Mianeh.

- executed Febuary 21, 1979

- No evidence he was envolved in the fire?? Had no time

for a defense statement

Public Trials

- Taheri's family protested charges leading to

officers death

- Represenatives of Ayatollah Khomeini reopened case

- Ayatollah Zia Rohani

- August 25 - September 4, 1980

So who did it?

- Hossein Takbalizadeh

- 5 others put the death in public

Defense statement : "In his defense statement, the principal defendant admitted to having started the fire along with three other religious activists and denied having having had connections with former regime's security apparatus"

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Rex_fire

5 W's

Who: Islamic Militants, SAVAK, Captain Monir Taheri,

Ayatollah Zia Rohani, Hossein Takbalizadeh

What: A fire at a Movie Theater killing 438 people

When: August 19, 1978

Where: Abadan, Iran

Why: Terriost Attack

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